Preparing for TESS

I had an interesting Twitter exchange with the TESS folks yesterday:

@NASAKepler @ajebson Short (2-minute) cadence: data on the ingress & egress of transiting exoplanets, a better handle on orbital parameters

@NASAKepler @ajebson will also be useful for asteroseismology of some stars. We’re also hoping for discoveries through GI Program

@NASAKepler @ajebson Also applies to the FFI data; we know that there will be interest in looking at a wide range of astrophysical sources

@NASAKepler @ajebson range from white dwarfs to Galactic Nuclei & the physics of the stars themselves will be studied by eclipsing binaries

@NASAKepler @ajebson we expect a large number of proposals from the Community. The FFIs will contain thousands of new transiting exoplanets

So it sounds like there will be a lot of interesting stuff to be learnt from both the shorter cadence and the FFI images (which are on the same cadence as Kepler LC light curves!

--- Tony

Posted January 6, 2017 8:25 AM

by ajamyajax

More links here:

https://twitter.com/NASA_TESS

https://blog.planethunters.org/category/tess-mission/

"Data preparation for asteroseismology with TESS"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02702

"The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0151

Posted January 6, 2017 2:55 PM

by ajamyajax

TESS light curve simulations

Just a few samples of the short cadence light curves we might see in the TESS data, from their website. And mostly EBs here I presume. And as we all are, looking forward to the real data to add to the wonderful collection of exoplanets discovered by Kepler and more!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u8sg1pnfi4jxqpz/AAAcswA3q7N9uy2wlOKkDqr6a?dl=0

Posted June 8, 2018 3:04 PM

by Maiakaat

Hi, does Planethunters have any time-frame for when light-curves from TESS start to be included? I hope I speak for others when I say that Tess data will be a welcome fresh motivator for participation on Planethunters.

Posted October 9, 2018 4:31 PM

by ajamyajax in response to Maiakaat's comment.

Maybe check the PH blog from time to time for TESS news updates:

https://blog.planethunters.org/

Posted October 17, 2018 1:37 AM

by hawaiisunfun

Planet Hunters closed the Kepler data, so that we'll work on TESS data I guess. Anyone else know anything about this change? https://blog.planethunters.org/2018/11/26/planet-hunters-a-new-beginning/

Posted December 1, 2018 5:29 PM